• Contact: Brians Agaba
  • Address: Ntinda, Kiwatule Road, Kampala-Uganda
  • Email: info@copacso.org
  • Web: www.copacso.org
  • Members:
    COPACSO

COPACSO

Coalition of Pastoralist Civil Society Organisations

Member since: 2021

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
1

Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
4

Equal land rights for women

Respect and protect the inherent land and territorial rights of indigenous peoples, as set out in ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including by recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge and cultures contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment".
5

Secure territorial rights for Indigenous Peoples

Enable the role of local land users in territorial and ecosystem management, recognizing that sustainable development and the stewardship of ecosystems are best achieved through participatory decision-making and management at the territorial-level, empowering local land users and their communities with the authority, means and incentives to carry out this responsibility.
6

Locally-managed ecosystems

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

To promote pastoralism through advocacy, networking, research and capacity building with stakehold-ers at the local, national, regional and international levels

Objectives

To Engage in advocacy for pro pastoralist policies, laws and development at local, national and regional levels; To influence change in public perceptions about pastoralism through media; Documentation and Research; Strengthen the capacity of COPACSO members and other stakeholders to articulate, lobby and advocate for pastoralist rights; and Organizational capacity and development.

Constituencies

Local, National and Regional levels

  • Contact: Brians Agaba
  • Address: Ntinda, Kiwatule Road, Kampala-Uganda
  • Email: info@copacso.org
  • Web: www.copacso.org
  • Members:
    COPACSO